Robin Hood
You can dress it up or throw mud in its eye, but the enduring appeal of the Robin Hood legend is simple: treachery bested by archery.
The other night, Turner Classic Movies aired the evergreen 1938 classic “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Errol Flynn in staggering three-strip Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and William [...]
Princess Kaiulani
The true story of how Hawaii lost its sovereignty and became annexed to the United States might have been an interesting one, but it makes for starchy entertainment in the historical drama “Princess Kaiulani.”
Written and directed by Marc Forby and told through the eyes of its title character, a half-Hawaiian, half-Scottish princess (bloodlessly [...]
Micmacs (2010) – Movie Review
Amazed by Amelie, yet underwhelmed by A Very Long Engagement, I really didn’t know quite what to expect with Micmacs, the third film I’ve seen from famed French director Jean Pierre Jeunet. Sadly, Micmacs falls a bit short of both other films. Micmacs follows the main character Bazil, who [...]
Get Him to the Greek
Extremely raunchy, “Get Him to the Greek” is also very funny.
Like the film that first paired Jonah Hill and Russell Brand, ” Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” the new comedy is unexpectedly sincere about the thing that matters most in a relationship: trust.
It is also creatively diverse in exploring the ways boy-men — [...]